Margaret Talbot on what the choice of Kamala Harris does, and doesn't, tell us about the future of the Democratic Party.

The election was not close, and the President's claims of voter fraud are merely a distraction from his many recent failures, Steve Coll writes.

Bill McKibben writes that a combination of factors for Joe Biden—the possibility of Democrats winning the Presidential election by an overwhelming margin and gaining a working majority in the Senate, a transitional attitude on Biden's part, and his reputation for a willingness to cross the political aisle—could give him a mandate to create significant and lasting change.

Robert Reich on some of the baseless claims Trump and his lackeys are promoting in key swing states

Steve Coll writes on the possibility of future efforts by Republicans, spurred by Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results, to use the Electoral Count Act of 1877, alongside other disenfranchisement strategies, to undermine democratic elections in 2022 or 2024.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells reflects on voting results in the 2020 Presidential election to ask whether the Republican Party is realigning itself with working-class, multiracial Americans.

Biden's campaign became the first ever to raise over $1B in donations, much of it from super PACs and dark money

Trump's sadistic rhetoric riled voters and enabled the GOP to redistribute wealth upwards without them noticing

Is this really the time to "humor" Trump by allowing him slowly to come to terms with reality — like a little boy?

Why collective responsibility is the essence of democratic politics

Reasonable people can blame third-party voters for their candidate's loss. Before doing so, they should blame the party that propped them up.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes on the reëlection campaigns of Lindsey Graham, Joni Ernst, and John Cornyn, and on Republican senators' reluctance, in debates and on the trail, to mention Donald Trump during the run-up to the 2020 election.

Isaac Chotiner interviews Vanita Gupta, the former head of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, about the Trump Administration's efforts to undermine the November election and produce a census undercount.

Sue Halpern writes that American citizens' right to choose representatives who best reflect their interests has been debased by those who use the claim that America is a republic, and the libertarianism on which that claim feeds, to justify siphoning power away from the electorate.

Amy Davidson Sorkin analyzes the Republican reluctance to acknowledge Joe Biden as the President-elect of the United States.

Trump attempts to throw out votes and and use Rudy Giuliani to overturn the election results are a sad attempt at a coup.

John Cassidy reacts to a Rudy Giuliani press conference in which the attorney claimed that Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 Presidential election was the result of widespread voter fraud.

Francoise Mouly collects excerpts from The New Yorker about this year's Presidential election, which inspired the cover for the November 16, 2020, issue of the magazine.

John Cassidy, in his continuing coverage of the 2020 election, discusses what voter polls indicate about the competition between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

Bill McKibben writes about Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election, and urges gratitude toward the many people and organizations that contributed to the win.